4-19 SS PhotoLife

Outdoorsman videographer Gilbert Herndon talks about his life. "I used to work at a meat packing plant and started doing photography on the side and wanted to be a nature photographer but I hunted and fished too. I met a guy by the name of Wayne Pearson and showed him some of my photographs and he hired me to do photographs for an archery shooters Association that he owned years ago and that is where I met you, David.  So I just went into the video work where I was taping outdoor shows with Wayne. The cameras we used back then weighed about 20 pounds and the battery packs weighed about another 20 pounds. Some of these elk hunts and a few other things  that you tape, that stuff is on you all day long and all together I was carrying around 50 pounds of equipment. The guys that I am filming are walking around with bows and arrows and guns that wait about 15 pounds. it was pretty tough work back then. Cameras have gotten a lot smaller over the years and I talk to some of these younger guys now about how they should have been back in the day when I was toting the heavy stuff and these guys are saying there ain’t no way I could’ve done that. But you have been on a lot of adventures and you have taped  all kinds of animals. Has that been fulfilling? I got to travel to a lot of places mainly through the United States, Canada and Mexico. Seen a lot of places, met a lot of people and yes, I wouldn’t have traded it for the world. It beats the heck out of a meat packing plant for sure."